Sentence examples for had committed him from inspiring English sources

Indeed, it was perhaps just such an army that Gandhi had imagined and, with a smile, had committed him to.

Ralph's conscience, meanwhile, had committed him to the parliamentary cause, and caused an agonising rift with his beloved father.

Then, Branch writes, he heard that "his latest staff prodigy," the young Jesse Jackson, "had committed him impulsively to a suicidal march".

The president's pledge in June had committed him to acting in the weeks before the midterm elections, when a half-dozen Democratic senators must face the voters.

His intuitively quite plausible "Basic Law V" (sometimes called "the unrestricted Comprehension Axiom") had committed him to the existence of a set for every predicate.

That would not have committed him to anything, but would have at least created daylight between himself and the Patriots.

"You are talking about some body who has committed him self to a full‐time vocation, if you will, of criminal activity.

It is considered, above all, that the manifestations of June 17 and 18 have given proof of the Führer's will to go ahead; that they have committed him before international opinion; and as, on the other hand, the Polish will to resist seems strong, it is not clear how any solution can be found to the crisis but war.

If they had weighed a pound he would have committed him for the value of a pound of waste paper, but this not being the case he discharged him.

Over a series of sleepovers and Ouija board sessions, I convinced her that she was being pursued by a vengeful ghost, incensed by nameless crimes she had committed against him in a past life.

He set up Jonathan Joseph with a cunning little delayed pass, delivered just as Harley had committed to tackling him.